The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-04-02
A ROYAL LETTER.
King Malietoa Undertakes to
Give Absurd Advice.
Perverted Views Of the Hawaiian
Situation.

Deen, SO Iar, euectual IN drawing
from Malietoa, the so-called king at
Apia, ut least two communications
The first was published in the oili-
cial organ several weeks ago, and
its contents have been pretty well
digested ere this; the second is in
the form of "advice," omitting the
encouragement" 10 the Envoy's
master. This appears, from some
accident, to have missed being
delivered, or it would undoubtedly
have been given to the public in
the same way as the first. Fortu-
nately, however, IL has not been for
ever lost, but was recently fished
out of the gutter in Smith street, by
a person who was ignorant of the
real value of his discovery, and sold
it to q curiosity-hunter for mere
triae. This individual, the rightful
owner by purchase, is of opinion
that this important document should
become as widely known as the first,
and therefore requests it's publica-
tion. 1t is here reproduced word
for word:
To His Mighty and Enlightened
Majesty the King of the Islands
of Hawaii, from His Mighty and
Enlightened Brother Malietoa,
Autocrat and Emperor of the
Samoan Misunderstanding
have seen with immense salts
faction the Envoy you have sent to
me at the Samoan Court, and have
listened to the arguments he has
adduced to bring me to the belief
that the prosperity of our two king
doms depends in great measure
on their being united, and in their
acting entirely in reciprocity. 1
have received from Mr.. Bush much
valuable information ON this SUBJ
ject. An alliance to be of advan-
tage to both of us should be of a
permanent nature, reaching far into
the future. Yet Mr.. Bush, to my
astonishment, has told me that the
Hawaiian natives are fast disappear
ing from the face of the earth, and
that in his opinion it may be very
difficult to find a handful of them
after the lapse of another twenty
years. He attributes this to their
manner of living, and the loose way
of their being governed. This with
me raises a very grave question, as
the reflection naturally comes to
me, "Who shall take their placer"
may say once for all that Chi
nese would not suit me.
Mr.. Bush informs me that very
great dissatisfaction is rife in your
kingdom, which may at any moment
culminate in revolution; that nine
tenths of the taxes, out of which
your own salary is paid and with
which your government is carried
on, are subscribed by or collected
from white people, who for the pur-
pose of finding profitable investment
for their capital have placed it in
machinery, mills, and plantations
on Hawaiian soil, and who roundly
assert that at present they have no
voice in the disbursement of the
monies they contribute; and that
for the future they are determined
to have voice, and to use it for
the public good.
Since l have known English
have read history much, and l find
that the story is always the same
with these white people, and that
they eventually carry their point,
sometimes firmly and quietly, some
times extravagantly and through
blood, as for instance in France at
the end of the Lost century.
have read sufficient to convince
me that in the end one man power,
or despotisin, has always to give way
to popular manifestation, although
the time taken for the change may
be long or short. In Samoa, at
present, have none of these
TROUBLES 10 lace.
One good turn deserves another,
and filed as l am with grave sur
misses as to the uncertainty of human
arrangements, and more especially
the fates of rulers and kingdoms, it
seems to me that the best way to
reciprOcate your interference in the
affairs of Samoa will be to give you
what ] consider sound advice, viz. {:
lst-To occupy yourself wholly
and solely with the affairs of your
own country. They need all the
attention you can spare, If you
desire to remain there as ruler.
2nd--TO pacify, so far as you
can, the American party who put
you on the throne OF your country,
and who otherwise may become just
as active in endeavors to put you
back again to where you were
originally, and inaugurate re-
public. This would be serious
misfortune both for yourself and
your friends, who now draw large
sums out of the tax monies, and
who then would draw nothing at all.
3rd-To do away with, at once
and for ever, all nonsense of Great
ing orders, and naming companions
and officers and knights of those
orders. This may do very well for
the old and respectable monarchies
Of Europe, but is quite out of place
in a little paltry state of aborigines,